a lot of the art stuff is blocked here for whatever reason. Typically I can click on the blank space and see it in a pop up, but not this time. The site it goes to is blocked. No worries, saw it on my phone. Its nice, just tiny.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 10, 2015 09:30 AM (Xo1Rt)

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Tiffany Wu from the morning thread about how hard it was to tell her parents she is leaving the high paying SV job behind to work on behalf of Cannabis for Everybody. Suspect it's going to be even harder for the Harvard Law School grad when the senior Wus inform her that she will have to start repaying them for her college and graduate education. With interest.

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Maybe I should add that clip on man bun thing? Will that make me appear younger?

Posted by: blaster at November 10, 2015 09:34 AM (2Ocf1)

60
52 Oh, goody, protesters at the local McDonald's who are demanding $15/hour (they currently get $8.65). They're inside, customers are just doing drive-through.
Economics, do you even understand it????
Posted by: Lizzy at November 10, 2015 09:31 AM (NOIQH)

I've always said, the art thread is the best place to get "real" since the NSA mostly ignores

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at November 10, 2015 09:35 AM (7RXcs)

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the more those protesters protest for the $15 minimum, the faster Micky Dees will start putting out Automated Order takers.

I get tired of having to deal with some really stupid people on the counter. Worse is when they think they're there to fraternize with the other employees and I'm an irritant in their hours of chat and joking around.

good thing I under went a form of anger management once.

My boss was a real procrastinator about certain stuff. Drove me nuts until one day I became PATIENT and didn't let his dilly dallying around get to me anymore.

Now I go through the days delays and idiots like a Zen Master.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 10, 2015 09:35 AM (Xo1Rt)

66Maybe I should add that clip on man bun thing? Will that make me appear younger?

I'm conflicted about the Starbucks red cups thing and locally there's a petition to get the mall to bring back the Christmas tree.

On the one hand, private biz should be able to do what they want.
OTOH the only reason they ditched the Christmas tree, and businesses don't use the word Christmas anymore, is because if SJW's and their "I'm offended " campaigns.
So if we go by Alinsky rules we should be maling them live up to their own rules. Christians are right to go on counter "I'm offended" campaigns. If they don't then they are basically okay with being marginalized.
(specially the mall one coz let's fave it no one is boycotting an entire mall for Christmas so a campaign is the only solution)

Fun fact about Schmidt: He ordered the 1997 raid on Mogadishu to free hostages.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 10, 2015 09:40 AM (JtwS4)

82On the one hand, private biz should be able to do what they want.
OTOH the only reason they ditched the Christmas tree, and businesses don't use the word Christmas anymore, is because if SJW's and their "I'm offended " campaigns.

How can they not know that the SJW's and the perpetually offended in our society are in the vast minority?

Which brings up the bigger question: when did we allow ourselves to be controlled by minority fringe groups? And by "we" I mean the rest of the country, since I refuse to let anybody order me around.

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Unfortunately the food is pretty crappy, except for that grilled onion cheddar burger on the dollar menu.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 10, 2015 09:39 AM (Zu3d9)

Those are pretty good. Their double cheeseburgers are usually good, but it depends on how long they've been sitting. If they're relatively fresh they aren't bad, but if they've been under the lamps for a while then not so much.

What an interesting antique circumlocution. An ancient cliche, you might say.

Back when lots of us had to read very brief "Lives of the Masters" about poets and composers, in the days when things like promiscuity and syphilis weren't mentioned, enlightened souls who had shacked up were always described as having "undergone a form of marriage."

Back then, there were still pieces of inside information to snicker about. Now, a composer's advanced STD are point one in the pre-concert lecture. Unless he's still alive, in which case he's usually there, and it's on display for all to see. And hear.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at November 10, 2015 09:42 AM (xq1UY)

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>>I'm conflicted about the Starbucks red cups thing and locally there's a
petition to get the mall to bring back the Christmas tree.

Same.However, my feeling is, if a business won't acknowledge Christmas than it is the height of hypocrisy to also try to sell me Christmas presents. It's insulting.

After all these years of Obama I'm leaning toward the Alinsky approach - gotta shout just as loud as the cry-bullies. And were any of these moves motivated by an actual complaint, or is this them preemptively tossing us over for fear of an imaginary, future complaint?

She wants to go to Wisconsin becoz her mom is old and never mind my family no sir

I'm sorta OK with it mostly becoz I think our kid might do better that way. The sorta NOT is becoz I'm in a job with very low-cost health insurance and a meh retirement track right now and do not at all relish looking for another suck-ass job in late middle age. I know I won't find the same combination of benefits anywhere else - it'll be some crappy crap job in a craphole with a crap supervisor.

She's all like "you gotta have an optimistic viewpoint!" Bwahahaha sez I.

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After all these years of Obama I'm leaning toward the Alinsky approach - gotta shout just as loud as the cry-bullies. And were any of these moves motivated by an actual complaint, or is this them preemptively tossing us over for fear of an imaginary, future complaint?
Posted by: Lizzy at November 10, 2015 09:42 AM (NOIQH)

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I've always gotten along with Lebanese, I had two roommates in college who were both Druze. All the "Arab hospitality" (The one guy used to bring a 5 gallon bucket full of homemade hummus back from vacation) with none of the stabby stabby.

Posted by: Ghost of kari at November 10, 2015 09:53 AM (xuouz)

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Someone mentioned this earlier and I am assuming it is the same article.

Stop the damn world, I want off.

http://tinyurl.com/nm9mbga

(please tell me this is parody)

Dear Jane,

I've been in such a state of perpetual turmoil ever since giving birth. My child, pronoun 'they', is now 3-years-old. I have been mired in a heinous state of chronic depression because 'they' do not want to play with girl's toys. It destroys me that 'they' might be another white CIS male, and another future agent of the patriarchy. That's just not the type of lifestyle I can support or agree with. 'Their' father has also been deeply despondent over our child's reluctance to conform to our stance and ideals on gender. My husband identifies as gender neutral, and whenever 'Xe' (my husbands current pronoun) witnesses our child playing with toy trucks and trains, it triggers 'Xer' so hard that 'Xe' crumbles into a quivering pile of inconsolable PTSD jitters.

Seriously, this HAS to be fake.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at November 10, 2015 09:53 AM (fWAjv)

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What's with the dust/smoke/steam in the valley at the left edge of this picture?

1. Troop of cavalry riding to the rescue?

b. Enticing hot sulpur springs resort?

3. ????

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at November 10, 2015 09:53 AM (NeFrd)

114
That's a painting of my safe space, except you can't see the mosquitoes.

Posted by: model-1066 at November 10, 2015 09:53 AM (1O7+g)

115
Coffee beans I like to buy at the grocery ( the dark roasted ones):
Eight O'Clock
Gevalia
Lavazza
I give others a try too ehen on sale but haven't found any other memorable ones.

Peet's has some good ones, but I'll only buy on sale - otherwise it runs about $10. It's not that I can't afford to pay a little more, I'm just stubborn that way.

I'm the same way with soda. I'll buy Diet Coke or Fresca if it's 3 for $11 but I'll be damned if I'll pay $5 or $6 for a 12 pack of soda. I'll drink water

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at November 10, 2015 09:58 AM (7RXcs)

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No, if it's real that poor kid is even more doomed than you thought. These idiots are going to go the way of the Shakers and un-fuck themselves out of existence. In the meantime keep calm, and carry on, pending further brownshirt campaigns and random acts of knife-giving by our Mohammedan friends.

I'm not conflicted about it, because the 'controversy' seems mostly made up. One guy on the internet complaining, and nine thousand media articles about it! And now the inevitable 'lets make fun of the Christians who think Starbucks isn't Christian enough because they left off the snow'. So irritating.

I also actually like the design and it's still Christmas colors.

Now, glaciers at the mall instead of Christmas trees? Stupid as hell. So focus on that.

Posted by: Lea at November 10, 2015 09:59 AM (lIU4e)

132
If you look close. You can see Danube River Guide still bobbing out there in the Barrel

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 10, 2015 09:59 AM (47Kpj)

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Starbucks bought Seattle's Best a while back. But I don't think they messed with the roasts & stuff.

I think Starbucks tried to Buy Peet's coffee too but it got dold to some German company. I can't remember if I like Peet's.

The fact that its in doubt indicates how far through the looking glass we are.

The comments indicate a lot of people (on both sides) took it as real.

Posted by: Toby at November 10, 2015 10:00 AM (hsCpX)

137
RWC - I read that, and a few other items on that same site, and wondered the same thing. Sure reads like straight-faced Onion-grade parody, but then there are people who think that way too .....
Ask Political Hat when he shows up, link was from him originally.

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I'll cut the slack on idioms and slang but these folks in this donut shop were unable to tell me what they had or to understand what I asked for. (I forget now it's been a while since I went there)

Donuts are not rocket science and since that's what they sell, I would think that the counter person should be able to rattle off the names of what they have and even understand when I say something they've heard before.

I think they were on break and decided to fcuk with the paleface so he'd go away and they could extend their break.

(no one else was in the store. That should've been a clue)

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 10, 2015 10:01 AM (Xo1Rt)

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How is forcing him to be transgender different than forcing him to be cis? YOU are perpetuating this 'construct of society' that is gender.
----

W. T. F.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at November 10, 2015 10:01 AM (fWAjv)

141
So, I was watching Morning Joe, and the red-headed bitch who got in the face of the journalist at Mizzou and told him to leave, is a professor of media.

Shocka.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 10, 2015 10:01 AM (FsuaD)

142My biggest gripe is trying to make a joke using a common American phrase and the recipient not getting the reference.

White suburbanites under 30, just as distant culturally. Thing #2 that drove me out of shopping malls, back when there were shopping malls. #1? Don't ask.

We're even, though: I don't get their jokes, either. Plus, I have a lawn.

The fact that its in doubt indicates how far through the looking glass we are.

The comments indicate a lot of people (on both sides) took it as real.
Posted by: Toby at November 10, 2015 10:00 AM (hsCpX)

Seeing as how that story about the two suckers of cock were demanding the six-year-old girl in their custody be referred to as a boy was apparently real, I can't fault them for thinking that story is real too.

There's been a bit of an awakening recently that there may not be a party in our political system for capitalist conservatives. That awakening - the may not be - part, is exactly the problem. There is no 'may not be' - there is only 'there isn't'.

The left has their own analogues: blacks and Jews. The left doesn't represent blacks. It exploits them. There is no other political or social group that is more anti-Zionist, anti-Jewish (religious aspect of Judaism), or anti-Semitic than the left, yet Jews, as a political block, are almost exclusively liberal.

Conservatism and classic liberalism are simply not represented anymore in our political system.

I honestly don't think that most people who identify themselves as being Democrat would identify themselves as being socialist, or even the type of liberal that Hillary purports herself to be.

Our current political parasitic two party system maintains itself by traditional inertia. People vote Democrat or Republican because they have always done so and the Dem and Republican establishments continue to represent themselves as the parties they were in the past - and because "We must preserve the two party system," nothing changes.

It has changed a little with this recent awakening to the reality that somebody or something is being represented, but it ain't us, but it won't change enough to affect any outcome in this next election. And because it probably won't change in this election, it probably won't change in the next election either, because in the end, "the two party system must be preserved."

That's all.

Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at November 10, 2015 10:07 AM (BZAd3)

161'll cut the slack on idioms and slang but these folks in this donut shop were unable to tell me what they had or to understand what I asked for.

163
There's some sheriffs somewhere (forget what state) Oregon? That banded together and sent the O'man a letter stating that they would not enforce any illegal or unconstitutional restrictions on the 2A.

All of Hayha's kills were accomplished in fewer than 100 days - an
average of just over five kills per day - at a time of year with very
few daylight hours.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at November 10, 2015 10:10 AM (hsCpX)

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"True, but the manner in which we reach ultimate doom matters. Doom from instantaneous annihilation is infinitely preferable to doom preceded by years of privation, misery, violence and fear. Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016"So you are saying your doom is better than my doom?

Obama's choice to head up the border patrol, is Heather Fong, former chief of police in San Francisco. She's an open borders nut, and staunch supporter of sanctuary cities. She famously said, as police chief, she would never turn anyone over to ICE.

It's like Obama hates our country or something.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 10, 2015 10:12 AM (FsuaD)

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163 There's some sheriffs somewhere (forget what state) Oregon? That banded together and sent the O'man a letter stating that they would not enforce any illegal or unconstitutional restrictions on the 2A.

189
I knew what was coming about six years ago when I was an attorney at BigLaw and there was mandatory diversity training, the gist of which was "you're all racists even if you think you're not, so you must give the best assignments for the best clients to associates of color, even if you think they can't handle it, even if they fucked up every previous assignment they ever did for you, because actually they didn't fuck up anything, whitey." A year later I went Galt, and have stayed Galt. After paying over six figures in taxes for many years, I have paid and owed $0.00 in Federal taxes for the last five years and for the foreseeable future. Go fuck yourselves, ProgTards.

Posted by: Happy Man at November 10, 2015 10:15 AM (Y8P5w)

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I think that since Starbucks coffee, to me, tastes burnt, is the reason why most people luv them the cafe mocha almond pumpkin cinnamon potato leek frozen frappachino. Anything to cover up the burnt flavor.

The same with the flavored beers, whiskeys, coffees, vodkas, etc. The producers are selling you an inferior product masked with flavorings.

Posted by: Bruce at November 10, 2015 10:15 AM (8ikIW)

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"Conservatism and classic liberalism are simply not represented anymore in our political system."

To the extent that they ever were.

When you have to go all the way back to Calvin Coolidge to find a President who genuinely and consistently extolled the virtues of small government and worked to keep it that way, it really tells you something.

197
Since it's okay to call Carly ugly (per The View), can I say that Hillary looks like Buffalo Bill made himself a skin suit three sizes too big?

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at November 10, 2015 10:17 AM (hsCpX)

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Obama's choice to head up the border patrol, is Heather Fong, former chief of police in San Francisco. She's an open borders nut, and staunch supporter of sanctuary cities. She famously said, as police chief, she would never turn anyone over to ICE.

Once worked as a sales rep for a trucking company that declared bankruptcy. Trying to get people to trust their freight to a bankrupt trucking company was ...uh... challenging. So many other alternatives that weren't bankrupt.

Anyway, if I was a fundraiser for another non-profit in Missouri today, I'd be working the Missouri alumni HARD.

Posted by: Radeaminit at November 10, 2015 10:18 AM (QolCq)

200
Oh man! I used to love that foam head-shaped template that you were supposed to put around your head for spraying on the Spray-on Hair. I guess it was to keep your ears from getting sprayed. One of the all time funniest products.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at November 10, 2015 10:18 AM (NeFrd)

201
I was flipping channels this morning, waiting for the painters to show up, and caught Fox and Friends celebrating the Marine Corp(se) 240th b-day.

I wish to hell Steve Doocy would keep his idiot pie-hole shut just for once. He constantly interrupts people, as he did this morning when a Marine Maj. was attempting to explain the cutting of the cake and the oldest Marine offering a slice to the youngest Marine.

And then the babbling idiot offered "Happy Anniversary!" to the Corps.

He's got to be the luckiest guy in television. Constantly mispronouncing words, stammering and stumbling through his three hours of television every morning. And he's so smug and pleased with himself.

Ugh!

/rant

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 10, 2015 10:18 AM (FsuaD)

202
Constantly mispronouncing words, stammering and stumbling through his
three hours of television every morning. And he's so smug and pleased
with himself.

Ugh!

Maybe he could run for president?

Posted by: Bruce at November 10, 2015 10:20 AM (8ikIW)

203
A lot of college programs are a waste now and have a negative ROI.

There needs to be some serious reform. Vocational education needs to be elevated.

But I don't think anything will happen until businesses start seeing the folly of using a bachelor's degree as an employment screening tool.

Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at November 10, 2015 10:20 AM (laMCB)

204He's got to be the luckiest guy in television. Constantly mispronouncing words, stammering and stumbling through his three hours of television every morning. And he's so smug and pleased with himself.

My hair turned white at 40 because that's what happens to the men in my family. Decided not to worry about it or dye my hair or anything but hated the indisputableevidence of middle age. Went to my 30 year high school reunionseveral years ago and foundI was one of the few who still had hair to worry about. Felt much better.

206
A thought about the University Chaos (stolen from George Carlin) ....When you think about how stupid the average person is....and then realize that half the people are even more stupid than that.....

210Click is an assistant professor of mass media in Missouri's communications department. According to the university's website, "Her research interests center on popular culture texts and audiences, particularly texts and audiences disdained in mainstream culture. Her work in this area is guided by audience studies, theories of gender and sexuality, and media literacy. Current research projects involve 50 Shades of Grey readers, the impact of social media in fans' relationship with Lady Gaga, masculinity and male fans, messages about class and food in reality television programming, and messages about work in children's television programs."

In other words, she's a pseudo-intellectual.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at November 10, 2015 10:22 AM (hsCpX)

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203 A lot of college programs are a waste now and have a negative ROI.

There needs to be some serious reform. Vocational education needs to be elevated.

But I don't think anything will happen until businesses start seeing the folly of using a bachelor's degree as an employment screening tool.
Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at November 10, 2015 10:20 AM (laMCB)

Yep. I've already tried planting the seed with my sons that when the time comes they should pick up some vocational skills.

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He's got to be the luckiest guy in television. Constantly mispronouncing words, stammering and stumbling through his three hours of television every morning. And he's so smug and pleased with himself.

Ugh!

/rant
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 10, 2015 10:18 AM (FsuaD)

The man owns no fewer than three homes. But the cadaverous look and shifting dentures give him a certain charm, ne c'est pas?

And juxtaposed with the equally vapid, eyebrowless Kilmeade, it's a critical mass of stupid.

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I think that since Starbucks coffee, to me, tastes burnt, is the reason why most people luv them the cafe mocha almond pumpkin cinnamon potato leek frozen frappachino. Anything to cover up the burnt flavor.

The same with the flavored beers, whiskeys, coffees, vodkas, etc. The producers are selling you an inferior product masked with flavorings.

The Macallan - neat.
Chilled - yes. Whisky stones - yes.
Never ice.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2015 10:24 AM (qjfjx)

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I think that the proper response to Academic Marxist Scolds (like Mizzou Prof Click) is to ask them why we should recognize their so called academic credentials at all.

If they deny the legitimacy of everu tradition and institution of this country as some sort of "conspiracy" againt Persons of Vagina or other victim group of her choosing, then we are not obligated to recognize the supposed source of her authority either.

You don't like the Bill of Rights or recognize the legitimacy of the American concept of individual liberty?
Fine, I don't recognize the legitimacy of a sociology degree, or an academic career built on the manipulation of ambiguous semantic catagories like "racism" or "patriarchy."

In fact, the whole utility of a "University" is now up for grabs, and the fact that you seek to conflate "education" with a credential issued by such a University holds no weight with me. You are a Professor of nonsense at a remedial institution of indoctrination.

220206 A thought about the University Chaos (stolen from George Carlin) ....When you think about how stupid the average person is....and then realize that half the people are even more stupid than that.....
Posted by: Mr.KnowItAll at November 10, 2015 10:21 AM (uJK1E)

And all of his kills - IIRC - were with a bolt action rifle with iron sights - no scope.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Proudly Sponsors America's College Outragians! at November 10, 2015 10:24 AM (hLRSq)

Kitteh stood on the front porch crying, and looking around like, "I'm free! Now what?!?"

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 10, 2015 10:25 AM (FsuaD)

225
When you have to go all the way back to Calvin Coolidge to find a President who genuinely and consistently extolled the virtues of small government and worked to keep it that way, it really tells you something.

Posted by: torquewrench at November 10, 2015 10:16 AM (noWW6)

And it tells you how little the establishment parties have had to work to maintain their hold on their constituencies. All they have had to do is to play to perceptions - constructs - of what they purported to represent. It hasn't really involved any effort at all. Just a little propaganda.

Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at November 10, 2015 10:26 AM (BZAd3)

226You just know that somewhere out there Simo Hayha is lining up a shot.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at November 10, 2015 10:28 AM (XUKZU)

231
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has stopped dismantling centrifuges in two uranium enrichment plants, state media reported on Tuesday, days after conservative lawmakers complained to President Hassan Rouhani that the process was too rushed.

If you look up "Played for a Fool" in the Dictionary or Google it, a picture of Fredo comes up

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 10, 2015 10:28 AM (gf8BH)

232
I happened to turn on telly and flip thru cnbc. Anyway, Tag Heuer is getting into smart watches. They are selling a $1500 smart watch that runs on Google's platform.
Their angle (vs Apple) is that after two years or more, when your watch is obsolete, you can bring it back and they will replace the innards with classic Swiss mechanical guts and you will have an "eternity watch"
Interesting.
I guess the classic luxury brand sensibility is that when you buy something from them, you'll keep it and be able to pass it down.

233In fact, the whole utility of a "University" is now up for grabs,
and the fact that you seek to conflate "education" with a credential
issued by such a University holds no weight with me. You are a
Professor of nonsense at a remedial institution of indoctrination.

It'd be a helluva time for a presidential candidate to pick up the banner of radical 'education reform.'

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at November 10, 2015 10:28 AM (hsCpX)

234Watched a BBC interview of Maggie Smith back from the mid 60s. With her heavy lidded bedroom eyes and cute 60s hair, what a hottie!

True story: Simo Hayha once single-handedly ambushed a Russian patrol by dropping head-down from a rope in a tree and machine-gunning them while he spun upside-down, a move seen in countless action movies since. He killed them all.

He also killed the man who shot him in the face and took him out of the war.

I agree. I'm still gobsmacked that Mooch and Barky allowed Malia to intern on the show this summer. WTH?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 10, 2015 10:32 AM (FsuaD)

247
210 Click is an assistant professor of mass media in Missouri's communications department. According to the university's website, "Her research interests center on popular culture texts and audiences, particularly texts and audiences disdained in mainstream culture. Her work in this area is guided by audience studies, theories of gender and sexuality, and media literacy. Current research projects involve 50 Shades of Grey readers, the impact of social media in fans' relationship with Lady Gaga, masculinity and male fans, messages about class and food in reality television programming, and messages about work in children's television programs."

In other words, she's a pseudo-intellectual.

Advanced Degrees in Agitation and Agitprop. Also a Demonrat Ward leader.

248
Oh man! I used to love that foam head-shaped template that you were supposed to put around your head for spraying on the Spray-on Hair. I guess it was to keep your ears from getting sprayed. One of the all time funniest products.

-
I still got put the Flobee on top.

http://tinyurl.com/ov4un63

Posted by: The Great White Snark at November 10, 2015 10:32 AM (XUKZU)

249"The Old Vic" sounds like a Victorian euphemism for a sadomasochistic act.

"The Old Vic" is the nickname for the Royal Victorian Theatre on the corner of Baylis and Waterloo Roads in London:

252
222 Well tomorrow is Veteran's Day and I will go into the City and march with my Unit up 5th Ave...then go out and get smashed. Should be a good time
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 10, 2015 10:25 AM (gf8BH)
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255
(specially the mall one coz let's fave it no one is boycotting an entire mall for Christmas so a campaign is the only solution)

Posted by: @votermom at November 10, 2015 09:36 AM (cbfNE)

Boycott malls? Just watch me. I don't have to boycott malls, since I practically never set foot in one. As in, only when I have to. Get a new phone, see the optometrist. That's about it. Might hit the food court in the mall, if it happens to be around lunch time when I show up.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 10, 2015 10:33 AM (0yhH4)

256He also killed the man who shot him in the face and took him out of the war.

Really? Wiki said he was hit with an explosive round that blew half his face off. Seems like a trick to get up from that and kill somebody.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 10, 2015 10:33 AM (JtwS4)

257
I agree. I'm still gobsmacked that Mooch and Barky allowed Malia to intern on the show this summer. WTH?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 10, 2015 10:32 AM (FsuaD)

"So Malia, how was your day?"

"It was great! I saw three beejers, a simulated golden shower and a rimjob!"

258Ever read that story about Ted Koppel's kid? Druggie/drunk. Had some cushy gove job for a while but quit. I assume b/c he was back on the booze. Loved to frequent real dive bars. Met some guy in one of them and they went back to his place. Dont think it was a gay thing but an alkie thing. Anyway, he stopped breathing and died.

It kills me how hipsters glory the deaths of Dylan Thomas and the characters of Eugen O'Neill.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at November 10, 2015 10:36 AM (iQIUe)

259
And physically a tiny, tiny man. Barely stood over 5 ft, his rifle was almost as long as he was. Amazing that that much badassery was squeezed into such a small, compact, travel-sized package.

Some self-righteous jerk asked him if he regretted killing so many people during the war. His response was far more restrained than what I would have said: "I was doing my duty, and following my orders during war."

No wonder he was so hard to hit.Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at November 10, 2015 10:31 AM (2Ojst)

All those years ago my platoon sergeant, a highly decorated Vietnam veteran, chose me to be on the M60 machinegun because I was one of the smallest men in the platoon, which sounds counterintutive because that gun was a bear to hump even for the bigger guys. Turns out smaller men really are harder to hit.

If the last man who ran against her and who had a rock solid double-digit lead over her in the polls had just had the sense to keep his goddamned yap shut and coast to victory, Air Claire would be politically unemployed today.

Posted by: torquewrench at November 10, 2015 10:38 AM (noWW6)

263
LOADS of snipers; also a werewolf and various malevolent tree spirits.Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at November 10, 2015 09:19 AM----------

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Really? Wiki said he was hit with an explosive round that blew half his face off. Seems like a trick to get up from that and kill somebody.Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 10, 2015 10:33 AM (JtwS4)

Hayha said he killed the man. I'll take his word for it. He was, after all, the greatest warrior since King David.

Simo sure has hell knows who's been naughty and nice.Simo comes on little cat feet, like the fog.Krampus pees when he hears Simo's name.How can an illegal immigrant couple travel across the Sinai without room reservations in perfect safety? Simo.

My favorite, no matter how much time and money my neighbors put into synchronized lights and gelded trees, I can always upstage them.With just one Simo silhouette. Click-click.

274So, some one obtained Shaun King's dna from trash and had it tested. LOL I wonder when the Daily News will fire him over the charity scandals?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at November 10, 2015 10:41 AM (iQIUe)

275
274
So, some one obtained Shaun King's dna from trash and had it tested. LOL I wonder when the Daily News will fire him over the charity scandals?
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at November 10, 2015 10:41 AM (iQIUe)

Is this Click idiot of the Melissa Harry Perry school of thought that calling people hard working is racist? Why on earth would you have an issue with teaching children about how to work so they can get a job later on in life?

281The University of Missouri has just capitulated like a bunch of Republicans. It was just announced they will hire a Chief Diversity Officer AND Diversity training/classes will be mandatory for everyone at the University. Does that go for the sports teams? Didn't see a lot of white guys on the teams. Must have been their white privilege keeping them off.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 10, 2015 10:44 AM (493sH)

282Everyone has access to the quad - not just the media. In fact the photog said there is a state law stating it.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at November 10, 2015 10:44 AM (iQIUe)

283
The University of Missouri has just capitulated like a bunch of Republicans. It was just announced they will hire a Chief Diversity Officer AND Diversity training/classes will be mandatory for everyone at the University. Does that go for the sports teams? Didn't see a lot of white guys on the teams. Must have been their white privilege keeping them off.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 10, 2015 10:44 AM (493sH)

I would never have gotten thru College now a days, because I would have stood up and walked out and told them to Go Fuck Themsleves

285
I'm probably way late on this: Ed Morrissey reporting that the NOT!! an investigation of Sir Edmund-Rodham-Clinton is looking more like an investigation. FBI adding more resources. I still think it goes nowhere, b/c her boss at the time would necessarily have shit splash on his shoes, and creased pants.

287
225When you have to go all the way back to Calvin Coolidge to find a President who genuinely and consistently extolled the virtues of small government and worked to keep it that way, it really tells you something.

Posted by: torquewrench at November 10, 2015 10:16 AM (noWW6The thing is that after WWII anybody who came out against Social Security or other FDR programs would not have gone very far.WWII is really what is responsible for cementing the idea that Big Government (and Big Business and Big Labor) were all good - because in the 1950's all three flourished and so did America. (The Greatest Generation BTW, with all their virtues, did not see the US government or FDR's programs as evil - they grew up in the Depression and after that trauma and the horrors of WWII, they wanted some guaranteed security.) However, as Walter Russell Meade pointed out the Blue State model only worked well for a limited and unique period in history - when much of the rest of the world was flat on its back and we had little competition - and we were cranking out babies like crazy. It's no longer workable - butfew Americans realize that.

290
And they think that capitulating to their demands will end the protest.

hahahahahahahhahahahahahahahha

They haven't read the history books, have they.

As with children; what you reward, you get more of.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 10, 2015 10:48 AM (Xo1Rt)

291
The girl who was run over by another girl in a car had been in over 15 fights according to her mother who acted proud of it. What the fuck are they raising?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at November 10, 2015 10:49 AM (iQIUe)

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283-I feel very lucky my kid is in a relatively decent school-George Mason. Her group of friends-mainly STEM kids-don't waste time with silly stuff. They are too busy studying for their various courses. So that makes me think that the course work for the kids who take the time to scream and harass other students and faculty is not nearly stringent enough. If you have time to screw around like that, your major isn't worth beans.

So my next question is, why bother having these majors?

Posted by: Moki at November 10, 2015 10:50 AM (x303I)

293
"Proof" is a white man's construct. All linear-logicked up.Just like you were told, there is no math on this test.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at November 10, 2015 10:50 AM (xq1UY)

294
The girl who was run over by another girl in a car had been in over 15 fights according to her mother who acted proud of it. What the fuck are they raising?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at November 10, 2015 10:49 AM (iQIUe)

Feral beasts

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 10, 2015 10:50 AM (493sH)

295
The University of Missouri has just capitulated like a bunch of Republicans. It was just announced they will hire a Chief Diversity Officer AND Diversity training/classes will be mandatory for everyone at the University. Does that go for the sports teams? Didn't see a lot of white guys on the teams. Must have been their white privilege keeping them off.

298
291 The girl who was run over by another girl in a car had been in over 15 fights according to her mother who acted proud of it. What the fuck are they raising?
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at November 10, 2015 10:49 AM (iQIUe)

299
The University of Missouri has just capitulated like a bunch of Republicans. It was just announced they will hire a Chief Diversity Officer AND Diversity training/classes will be mandatory for everyone at the University.

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"Consequently, tuition will be raised by 30% on all non-minority students."

Posted by: Mizzou! at November 10, 2015 10:52 AM (VAsIq)

300If you're not white playing a sport created by a white person isn't that cultural appropriation? Don't give into the Man! Stop playing his sports!

Why does student debt keep going up and up even as it's harder and harder to find a good job with a college degree? And why does it seem that the more aid the government and colleges give, the less it helps? Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, shows how politicians and universities have saddled students with dangerous debt...and with little to show for it.

Did her mother happen to mention whether she was 15-0-0, or what?Inquiring FanDuellists want to know...

[football thread]AP Poll is up. Navy #22. Huh.[/football thread]

Posted by: Stringer Davis at November 10, 2015 10:54 AM (xq1UY)

308
288-hubby's a former Marine, and we spent many years in embassies with Marine Security Guards, where it was common for the civilians (mainly the Americans, but some Foreign Service Nationals) to respond to Marine greetings with Semper Fi. I will presume other Marines would be pleased to hear civilians respecting their culture, and would not consider it an "appropriation." Unless the person saying it was flipping them the bird at the same time.

Posted by: Moki at November 10, 2015 10:54 AM (x303I)

309
No death wish here. Just saying getting older isn't such a bad thing.

In fact, I wish I were a few years older. I am envious of those who are retiring now, because they will be among the last to enjoy their retirements. By the time I'm 65, they'll have raised retirement age to 70 - they'll have to. By the time I'm 70 Social Security will be going down the toilet. Not that I've planned on relying on SS but when it goes the whole economy will go down the toilet with it.

312303 The moon is slightly to the left of its reflection. The artist should have used drafting tools.
Posted by: melanerpes at November 10, 2015 10:53 AM (6sjBD)

That's just proof of global warming, you racist.

Posted by: jwb7605 at November 10, 2015 10:56 AM (DofIg)

313291
The girl who was run over by another girl in a car had been in over 15
fights according to her mother who acted proud of it. What the fuck are
they raising?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at November 10, 2015 10:49 AM (iQIUe)

You should catch an episode of the Real Housewives of Atlanta.

You can take the hood rat out of the hood, dress them up, give them tons of money and nice cars, and they'll still yank off a wig and cut a bitch.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 10, 2015 10:56 AM (FsuaD)

314
I will presume other Marines would be pleased to hear civilians respecting their culture, and would not consider it an "appropriation." Unless the person saying it was flipping them the bird at the same time.

Guessing this was done as part of "everyone deserves to go to college" caught on. Gotta have degrees for the people who really shouldn't be there (and would likely fail classes required for a legitimate major).
Also, meets goal of training a generation or two of activists who have been 100% indoctrinated to destroy the establishment via grievance studies.

336
I'm conflicted about the Starbucks red cups thing and locally there's a petition to get the mall to bring back the Christmas tree.

On the one hand, private biz should be able to do what they want.
OTOH the only reason they ditched the Christmas tree, and businesses don't use the word Christmas anymore, is because if SJW's and their "I'm offended " campaigns.

All of these commie bastard companies want to make money off of Christmas without having to mention its name. Screw them and in particular commie Starbucks.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 10, 2015 11:03 AM (493sH)

337
Stringer Davis -
Where will you be seeing Tannhauser? I saw it at the Wiener Statsoper in 2000 with Waltraud Meier as Elizabeth. It was terrific.

342
No, you should never address a Marine with "Semper Fi" if you're not one.

The respectful form of salutation is "Sea-Going Bell-Hop."If you want to be helpful, remind him that the Admiral is ready for his coffee.

You will have a friend forever.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at November 10, 2015 11:05 AM (xq1UY)

343
one that is "on the lam"? one with a warrant?
or one very close to the Obama administration?

I think you repeated yourself.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at November 10, 2015 11:05 AM (5buP8)

344
Guessing this was done as part of "everyone deserves to go to college" caught on. Gotta have degrees for the people who really shouldn't be there (and would likely fail classes required for a legitimate major).
Also, meets goal of training a generation or two of activists who have been 100% indoctrinated to destroy the establishment via grievance studies.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 10, 2015 11:02 AM (NOIQH)

It also employs utterly worthless individuals to "teach" these utterly worthless classes. The commie teachers sure do love them some big bucks teaching gigs while railing against capitalism and everything else

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 10, 2015 11:05 AM (Xo1Rt)

346
I happened to turn on telly and flip thru cnbc. Anyway, Tag Heuer is getting into smart watches. They are selling a $1500 smart watch that runs on Google's platform.
Their angle (vs Apple) is that after two years or more, when your watch is obsolete, you can bring it back and they will replace the innards with classic Swiss mechanical guts and you will have an "eternity watch"
Interesting.
I guess the classic luxury brand sensibility is that when you buy something from them, you'll keep it and be able to pass it down.

Posted by: @votermom at November 10, 2015 10:28 AM (cbfNE)

Meh. My $25 "Coleman" watch from Walmart is still going strong after at least six years. I can't see the sense of walking around with several grand on your wrist, making oneself a tempting target for a mugging. In my world, a wristwatch is an appliance, not jewelry.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 10, 2015 11:05 AM (0yhH4)

347Oy. Finally had my habit of Friday night drinkingand ordering of gun parts come back to bite me.Just saw where I ordered not one, but two delta ring kits for my AR-15 build.Maybe it's a sign I need to build an ARpistol too?

I had a Casio for years. Black hard plastic case that took an incredible beating at work. The band finally snapped, along with one of the molded anchor points, so I just used it as a pocket watch until I lost it.

358
Yo, Buckwheat: the possessive of 'you' is 'your', so that would be 'your cellulite sucked', sport. Ordinarily, I don't bother correcting people online but think you're a special case in need of special attention.

361
I haven't read all the thread but did anyone mention that the "racist" message on a Berkeley HS computer that brought angry demands from the BLM crowd, was perpetrated a a Black Yout? Of course the media neglected to change the story....

363If they're downtown near a big building in their dress blues, ask them if they have valet parking or to get you a cab.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 10, 2015 11:07 AM (Xo1Rt)Or hold an umbrella for your ass.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at November 10, 2015 11:11 AM (oKE6c)

364
@337 Met did it on "TV" last weekend. Big screen HD in theatres.My list of unseen Wagner is getting shorter. Does "Rienzi" even count?I have been through The Ring twice, live. That will be on my tombstone.

well they were hiding someone and its likely that someone asked them to do it

so who are they hiding? anyone in the administration form Mo?

Posted by: ThunderB at November 10, 2015 11:11 AM (zOTsN)

367
>>It also employs utterly worthless individuals to "teach" these utterly worthless classes. The commie teachers sure do love them some big bucks teaching gigs while railing against capitalism and everything else.

Yup.

Reminds me of a novel I read in the 80's called "White Noise" (IIRC) about a professor looking for a niche decides on Elvis Studies, modeled after a colleague who settled on Hitler Studies...or something like that (memory's not so good). Regardless, this was supposed to be funny. Yet here we are, decades later, and there are serious "studies" sillier than the fake ones in the book.

Ever hear the term "dead ringer"? I have no idea how true this story is, but we were told that during the yellow fever epidemic in Savannah, people were being accidentally buried alive. Those who could afford it would have a bell buried with them and pay someone to sit by the grave. Just in case.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 10, 2015 11:12 AM (FsuaD)

370
The most ironic thing about this latest disgrace at Mizzou? Missouri is noted as one of the top J-schools in the country.
Edit to add: "was noted."

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at November 10, 2015 11:12 AM (5buP8)

371
I haven't worn a wrist watch since I've owned a cell phone, since I always have the damn thing with me.

I would guess more radical - recall that Ferguson riots were joined by CAIR and Palestinian-Americans. But they're all connected Weathermen and Code Pink have openly worked with Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbola, etc.

399
The University of Missouri has just capitulated like a bunch of Republicans. It was just announced they will hire a Chief Diversity Officer AND Diversity training/classes will be mandatory for everyone at the University. Does that go for the sports teams? Didn't see a lot of white guys on the teams. Must have been their white privilege keeping them off.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 10, 2015 10:44 AM (493sH)

Diversity? I wonder how many conservatives that they have working in their Sociology Department?

Posted by: Cheri at November 10, 2015 11:19 AM (oiNtH)

400
Amazing. I learned about jerking when I was 12. Didn't realize you needed schooling to do it.

Posted by: maddogg

*SIGH*

"J-School" means "Jewish School"--it's where Jewish parents send their children to be schooled in Hebrew and stuff.

Posted by: That guy at the party who explains things wrongly at November 10, 2015 11:19 AM (VAsIq)

405
Amazing. I learned about jerking when I was 12. Didn't realize you needed schooling to do it.

That's J/O school. You must be thinking about that school in Lawrence KS.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at November 10, 2015 11:21 AM (5buP8)

406
Nicest compliment I ever got, with pants on. I Scouted with a near-legendary scoutmaster who was a Marine sergeant at Khe Sanh. Winter campout, I slept outside with no tent, pan-fried backstrap in a GI mess kit, made rice and beans from staple state, you know, man stuff. When some later complained that they had barely survived their 24 hours in the woods, scoutmaster said, "Well, Stringer and me, see, we're the old breed..."

Old Breed. I blushed so hard my mustache bristled. I'm a too-sanger, half injun half snappin-turtle, and all that.The Old Breed, I will never ever be.

412
As Ace has said, colleges spend a lot of their time teaching kids to be mentally ill.

On almost any campus, you can find a classroom teaching about white people what 'Mein Kampf' taught about the Jews.

We overpay these organizations to provide perpetual employment for people so mentally disturbed they spend every day stewing in their own grievance and hate, and teaching it to young people.

And thus ensure the next generation of anti-Western leftists.

Just. End. It. Remove the public money that lets them get away with these things without responsibility. It's immunizing them from any pressure to clean up their acts and provide any skills of real value.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at November 10, 2015 11:22 AM (oVJmc)

413
you will be shocked but the protest to disrupt the homecoming parade was planned by three rad fem BML women

Oy. Finally had my habit of Friday night drinkingand ordering of gun parts come back to bite me.
Just saw where I ordered not one, but two delta ring kits for my AR-15 build.
Maybe it's a sign I need to build an ARpistol too?

418I would guess more radical - recall that Ferguson riots were joined by CAIR and Palestinian-Americans. But they're all connected Weathermen and Code Pink have openly worked with Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbola, etc.

420
Amazing. I learned about jerking when I was 12. Didn't realize you needed schooling to do it.

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I think we need a cabinet-level department to regulate this. You know, for the children.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at November 10, 2015 11:23 AM (fFIVI)

421
Actually, the big driver for requiring a college degree for just about any job was a court case; Duke Power vs. someoneorother, or vice versa. Late 70's / early 80's.
Ruled that employer testing for knowledge or skills was discrimination.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 10, 2015 11:23 AM (erRNA)

422
Hey. When the ammo famine hit, I started buying 9mm and .22lr whenever I could. Then recently I hit about 5k for .22 and 2k for 9mm.

Decided it was time to buy a gun to go with the ammo.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 10, 2015 11:24 AM (Xo1Rt)

423Indonesia considers prison guarded by crocodiles -- because they can't be bribed....

425I wonder what the JEF has planned for Veterans' Day? Perhaps it will rain at Arlington and he can use a Marine to hold an umbrella for him.

It disgusts me that the Marxist POS mere presence there desecrates that sacred place.

Churches have reconsecration ceremonies after a desecration. President Poppins would not only have the White House publicly and ostentatiously fumigated, I'd have chaplains from every branch of the service "re-consecrate" Arlington, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and every other sacred military space the dog-eating crackhead befouled.

And I'd finish off by ripping Barky's official presidential portrait off the wall and, on live TV, be shown throwing it down the stairs into the White House cellar.

426
Nicest compliment I ever got, with pants on. I Scouted with a near-legendary scoutmaster who was a Marine sergeant at Khe Sanh. Winter campout, I slept outside with no tent, pan-fried backstrap in a GI mess kit, made rice and beans from staple state, you know, man stuff. When some later complained that they had barely survived their 24 hours in the woods, scoutmaster said, "Well, Stringer and me, see, we're the old breed..."

Old Breed. I blushed so hard my mustache bristled.
I'm a too-sanger, half injun half snappin-turtle, and all that.
The Old Breed, I will never ever be.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at

Excellent Bond movie - great action set pieces, jaw-dropping visuals and sites (where the hell do they find all of these great places?),

good story, though I'm a bit tired of everything some how tying back to Bond's past ala Batman, hot babes.

NOT REALLY A SPOILER BUT IF YOU DON'T WANT ANYTHING EVEN HINTED AT-

DO NOT READ!!!!!!!!

I'm a bit meh on the ending itself but it provides a

walk-away ending to the Bond story itself if Daniel Craig is truly out.

But, given what Blofeld told Bond makes the ending highly unlikely, and more likely sets up a certain plot sequence for those familiar with the old Bond movies.

Check it out.

A great time at the movies.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 10, 2015 11:25 AM (KUa85)

430
Yes, I believe Rienzi counts. I read recently that someone was trying to get Die Feen and Liebesverbot staged and recorded (don't remember the details). I think it was Die Meistersinger that was on the simulcast last weekend. I couldn't make it, though it was shown here in town. I saw Der Ring in Seattle in 2013. Also fabulous (though our Brunnhilde got sick and we had to have her understudy, who was not too bad. Fortunately Siegfried was incredible: Stefan Vincke).

Posted by: Brunnhilde at November 10, 2015 11:26 AM (aW5/6)

431
College professors should get annual independent mental health assessments to continue their employment.

440Actually, the big driver for requiring a college degree for just about any job was a court case; Duke Power vs. someoneorother, or vice versa. Late 70's / early 80's.
Ruled that employer testing for knowledge or skills was discrimination.

Yeah, well, I guess it is discriminatory. I sure wouldn't hire somebody who didn't know wtf they were doing.

I'd love to see Ted Cruz litigate that one in front of teh SCOTUS. So many wrong court decisions, so little time to save the country from imbeciles...

442
406 Nicest compliment I ever got, with pants on. I Scouted with a near-legendary scoutmaster who was a Marine sergeant at Khe Sanh. Winter campout, I slept outside with no tent, pan-fried backstrap in a GI mess kit, made rice and beans from staple state, you know, man stuff. When some later complained that they had barely survived their 24 hours in the woods, scoutmaster said, "Well, Stringer and me, see, we're the old breed..."

Stringer, that is something to be treasured. It is heartening that you, Jane D'oh's son, and the 'rons and 'ettes are trying to raise a generation that respect and carry on that legacy. That and the love of Christ keep me going lately.

445
I don't post personal stuff, here or anywhere on the internet, because it's the internet and you're probably all robots. That said, a very dear friend of mine passed away on Sunday. This is the only place online I'm saying that.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 10, 2015 11:31 AM (B8JRQ)

446421 Actually, the big driver for requiring a college degree for just about any job was a court case; Duke Power vs. someoneorother, or vice versa. Late 70's / early 80's.Ruled that employer testing for knowledge or skills was discrimination.Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 10, 2015 11:23 AM (erRNA)

450
440 Actually, the big driver for requiring a college degree for just about any job was a court case; Duke Power vs. someoneorother, or vice versa. Late 70's / early 80's.
Ruled that employer testing for knowledge or skills was discrimination.

Yeah, well, I guess it is discriminatory. I sure wouldn't hire somebody who didn't know wtf they were doing.

I'd love to see Ted Cruz litigate that one in front of teh SCOTUS. So many wrong court decisions, so little time to save the country from imbeciles...
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at November 10, 2015 11:30 AM (LUgeY)

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That's not exactly correct. What you can't do is give generalized tests to weed out the low IQ and idiots. But if you have specific skills they can be tested.

451Stringer, that is something to be treasured. It is
heartening that you, Jane D'oh's son, and the 'rons and 'ettes are
trying to raise a generation that respect and carry on that legacy. That
and the love of Christ keep me going lately.

453
I don't post personal stuff, here or anywhere on the internet, because it's the internet and you're probably all robots. That said, a very dear friend of mine passed away on Sunday. This is the only place online I'm saying that.

458
I just want to mention that the university of Missouri is an arm of the State of Missouri. That the professors there are employees of the state. That a state actor violating a citizen's civil rights is a violation of 42 USC Sec. 1983.

I think the university's counsel needs to have a chat with the staff more than the diversity officer does.

459
I consider it my sacred duty to keep the flame of love for our beautiful Western civilization alive. Nothing will ever surpass the beauty our shared European Christian culture has produced: I actually get verklempt thinking about it, I love it so! They can have Wagner and Beethoven when they pry them from my cold, dead heart. Even then, I don't think it really works that way...
So the Destroyers will never win as far as I am concerned.

Posted by: Brunnhilde at November 10, 2015 11:35 AM (aW5/6)

460
I don't post personal stuff, here or anywhere on the internet, because it's the internet and you're probably all robots. That said, a very dear friend of mine passed away on Sunday. This is the only place online I'm saying that.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
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You have my heartfelt sympathies.
I never have the right words, everything sounds like a platitude at such times.

461
So a college diploma essentially became a certificate certifying the applicant isn't a hood rat.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at November 10, 2015 11:31 AM (oKE6c)

And made it all but impossible for a HS grad (but from back when an HS grad KNEW stuff) to get a decent job.

Every time it seems there's some ground breaking court case, the common folk get screwed.

They did it with suing over testing, and over nut houses and the list goes on where supposed lawsuits were brought to redress some negative or unfair condition. And the outcome is always that life in the US is made dumber, less rational and more costly.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 10, 2015 11:35 AM (Xo1Rt)

Jeebus. You'd think the roommate would have noticed the ISIS flag and alerted someone.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 10, 2015 11:38 AM (FsuaD)

474
a state actor violating a citizen's civil rights is a violation of 42 USC Sec. 1983the new normal.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 10, 2015 11:38 AM (erRNA)

475That's not exactly correct. What you can't do is give generalized tests to weed out the low IQ and idiots. But if you have specific skills they can be tested.Posted by: Make America Great Again at November 10, 2015 11:33 AM (LXJ1e)

Yeah, why would you want to weed out the low IQ types, anyway?

Posted by: Jay Guevara at November 10, 2015 11:38 AM (oKE6c)

476
That said, a very dear friend of mine passed away on Sunday. This is the only place online I'm saying that.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 10, 2015 11:31 AM (B8JRQ)

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I must be honest here -it gets worse. More and more old friends and acquaintances die. Personally, it make my own death which will come eventually easier to accept.

Anyway, sorry you lost a friend. It's never easy.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at November 10, 2015 11:38 AM (iQIUe)

477
So a college diploma essentially became a certificate certifying the applicant isn't a hood rat.
Posted by: Jay Guevara
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The innocent lamb (who shall be ignored by the MFM) was probably just upset over the lack of diversity

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 10, 2015 11:39 AM (493sH)

480So could a fast food restaurant administer a basic skills test of reading and math since those are basic skills to do the job?

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at November 10, 2015 11:37 AM (AC0lD)

Nice try. Some shyster will make that out as a crypto-IQ test.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at November 10, 2015 11:39 AM (oKE6c)

481Every time it seems there's some ground breaking court case, the common folk get screwed.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 10, 2015 11:35 AM (Xo1Rt)

And my second big question of the day is how does that get reformed? Can that be changed legislatively or would activist judges just strike down common sense changes? Is the rebuilding phase after 'Let it Burn' the only hope of correcting these laws....?

494
College professors should get annual independent mental health assessments to continue their employment.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel
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You say that as if psychologists weren't just as libtarded as the others.

Mizzou police are telling people to report "hurtful speech" for punishment

Pol Pot and Stalin would be so proud

Posted by: ThunderB at November 10, 2015 11:43 AM (zOTsN)

496
421 Actually, the big driver for requiring a college degree for just about any job was a court case; Duke Power vs. someoneorother, or vice versa. Late 70's / early 80's.
Ruled that employer testing for knowledge or skills was discrimination.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 10, 2015 11:23 AM (erRNA)
Yep. Griggs v. Duke Power. Which, IIRC, started that disparate impact crap.
So a college diploma essentially became a certificate certifying the applicant isn't a hood rat.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at November 10, 2015 11:31 AM (oKE6c)
___________

I remember in late 80s taking a literacy test and being informed I had one answer wrong. Was really upset (don't laugh, degree in Brit Lit) but HR told me that was the highest score evah. Mega law firm drone job and all the big-time Hahvahd, Yaleies and UofC took the same test. I think they got around that decision by everyone taking the same test, mailroom, accounting, clerks and top-tier baby lawyers all treated the same.

Posted by: mustbequantum at November 10, 2015 11:43 AM (MIKMs)

497
College professors should get annual independent mental health assessments to continue their employment.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel
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If Emma Sulkowicz scores a teaching gig, would she be allowed to get an assessment from her parents?

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at November 10, 2015 11:43 AM (E5UB0)

498
These children think college is a fucking right. It isn't imbeciles.

Posted by: maddogg at November 10, 2015 11:43 AM (xWW96)

499
@494 Yeah. I think that's how they got rid of the conservatives, years ago.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at November 10, 2015 11:44 AM (xq1UY)

500"In that case Tilikum, I think you absolutely should. Heck, you probably have enough parts lying around the house to build the bulk of one. ---Chupacabra"

Wellll, I've been an AK guy so I can cobble a pistol together from those parts, and Ijust might. New to ARs. So many options. Lawdy.

Jeebus. You'd think the roommate would have noticed the ISIS flag and alerted someone.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 10, 2015 11:38 AM (FsuaD)

Im not sure

who wants to be the roomate who is accused of racism and colonialism and brought before stuent council

Posted by: ThunderB at November 10, 2015 11:46 AM (zOTsN)

506
Mizzou police are telling people to report "hurtful speech" for punishment

Those "racist" incidents sound like set ups to me. It's the word of the "offended" that they had their feelings hurt because someone called them Honkies, and Crackers... Oh wait it wasn't those acceptable words it was the word that shall not be named... The word every rap song contains...

507And my second big question of the day is how
does that get reformed? Can that be changed legislatively or would
activist judges just strike down common sense changes? Is the rebuilding
phase after 'Let it Burn' the only hope of correcting these laws....?

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at November 10, 2015 11:39 AM (AC0lD)

Griggs v. Duke Power was a Supreme Court decision, so I believe (IANAL) it can't be changed legislatively short of a Constitutional amendment.We just need the Supreme Court to pull its head out of its ass and reverse itself on this and O'Connor v. Sullivan (?), the decision that turned all the nut jobs loose on the streets.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at November 10, 2015 11:46 AM (oKE6c)

508A 12 and a 13 year old stabbed an Israeli. One was shot but is alive.

http://goo.gl/kfhnjk

The photos of the little shits -- they look so small.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at November 10, 2015 11:46 AM (iQIUe)

509
mustbequantum - plus they were a mega law firm, so if challenged they could litigate it endlessly on overhead.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 10, 2015 11:46 AM (erRNA)

510
Great. Got a scam call ("The IRS is going to sue you") for the second time this morning.

Call block. Why the hell doesn't it work?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 10, 2015 11:47 AM (FsuaD)

511
Jeebus. You'd think the roommate would have noticed the ISIS flag and alerted someone.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 10, 2015 11:38 AM (FsuaD)

Im not sure

who wants to be the roomate who is accused of racism and colonialism and brought before stuent council

Being on terror watch list leads one to wonder all sorts of things - where did his family emigrate from, was he born here, what mosque did he attend (and is it known for radical sermons?), what does his father do, has he o his family traveled to the ME recently, etc.

Loser pays. If we had this as a tort reform, we would limit the suits that would be brought.

It's why it's fought so hard against by the Lawyers(Democrats).

And they could also stop the ability of lawyers to create a "class" and sue as a class which usually results in a bit payoff for the lawyers but practically nothing for the individuals in the class.

and then there's the laws that allow someone to sue for the state. that's when a law or rule is broken and a private person is allowed to sue the defendant for damages in the name of the state. Getting a percentage of the award. On top of the Lawyers fees of course.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 10, 2015 11:48 AM (Xo1Rt)

517Being on terror watch list leads one to wonder
all sorts of things - where did his family emigrate from, was he born
here, what mosque did he attend (and is it known for radical sermons?),
what does his father do, has he o his family traveled to the ME
recently, etc.

The silence makes one wonder what it is they don't want reported....

Posted by: Lizzy at November 10, 2015 11:47 AM (NOIQH)Exactly. We raised questions just like that in Cut.Jib.Newsletter when the story first broke, and here we are a week later, and crickets.

No; I'm not a robot. If I were I wouldn't be having pain in various joints. But I'm so sorry about your friend and thanks for being willing to share it here.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 10, 2015 11:50 AM (No/ki)

524
During Y2K, I signed up for a course to learn Cobol in Michigan. It was a course offered by a company, it cost $2000, no guarantee of employment but I followed up with some study at home courses, sent them a resume and they later hired me.

Anyways, they didn't take everyone for the course. They did have a test that they administered that was supposed to determine whether you had the skills to make a good programmer. I was the first one to ever get perfect on the test which surprised them. I'm kind of proud of that because half the people taking the test that day were India - Indian and I stereotypically assume, relatively smart...

533because half the people taking the test that day were India - Indian and I stereotypically assume, relatively smart...

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at November 10, 2015 11:50 AM (AC0lD)

Legal immigrants - both of them - tend to be pretty smart, because that's how they got in. We don't (or didn't, at least) generally import dumb asses, because we've got plenty of homegrown ones.So it's not a stereotype, any more than saying, e.g., physicians tend to be relatively smart. They were selected for it.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at November 10, 2015 11:54 AM (oKE6c)

534
Mizzou police are telling people to report "hurtful speech" for punishment

She sneezed. He said, Bless you. I'm offended!!!!

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 10, 2015 11:54 AM (493sH)

535
Because the spoof the numbers. It's gotten epidemic. I dont answer the phone unless I recognize the number or I can hear it on call screening. I then check the number online.
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546
Even Caitlyn Springsteen is coming out with a line of man buns that xie intends to market to blue collars. It's called Bun in the USA.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at November 10, 2015 11:58 AM (E5UB0)

547Because the spoof the numbers. It's gotten epidemic.
I dont answer the phone unless I recognize the number or I can hear it
on call screening. I then check the number online.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at November 10, 2015 11:52 AM (iQIUe)

Don't block calls - forward them to another spammer. If you have VoIP, there are programs that will let you selectively forward calls, depending on the caller ID number (bogus or not). For example, I forward ALL phone calls coming from exchanges beginning with "1", because there are no such exchanges in the U.S.

Where to forward them? A little Internet sleuthing (e.g., 800notes.com) will let you know who is behind many calls. A little more sleuthing will let you find a legitimate phone number for that outfit. Voila!

615Florida - land of the sinkholes and alligators. I wonder if drug cartels will make a comeback? Everything that is old is new again, as they say.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at November 10, 2015 12:22 PM (iQIUe)

616
Paint draws the moisture out of your skin in a way that can only be counteracted by alcohol. Also, Benjamin Moore was a drunk. Same with Sherwin and Williams.

Now you know why a paint can opener is also made to open bottles.

Posted by: Ed Anger at November 10, 2015 12:22 PM (RcpcZ)

617
If your whole goal is to be able to sound smart around other stoners, then those studies degrees are probably a smart investment.

Posted by: Chupacabra at November 10, 2015 12:19 PM (F26eZ)

I worked with this woman years ago who was as brain dead as she was cute. All she could do was spout liberal clichés. Any questioning of her and she gave a blank stare or went back to a cliché even if it had nothing to do with the topic. Like a train riding on liberal talking points rails her brain could not move anywhere but down those rails

And you told her she was smart and interesting and banged her like drum. Didn't you.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 10, 2015 12:24 PM (Xo1Rt)

620
how can libs be for unfettered immigration but against right to work laws?

Libs are idiots. All of them. They're too stupid to grasp what's going on, and merely parrot the received wisdom generated by the hard left.

It's the leftists who are driving the bus, and from their perspective, this makes perfect sense.

Bring in a shitload of uneducated Third World types who will be fertile ground for agitation in the second generation. Their presence will bump up black unemployment, which will make them fertile ground for agitation now. Pack colleges with people who have no business being there, and who will learn nothing of any value to anyone else, and will become bitter when they can't get jobs. More fertile ground for agitation.

Do all this while protecting union jobs from the wetback onslaught, so the entire brunt of unemployment falls on blacks, and they keep union support and donations.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at November 10, 2015 12:25 PM (oKE6c)

621
Do younger, millenial chicks seriously dig the man-bun look? Cause I gotta tell you, most women I know would probably slap a guy sporting a man bun. Just for shits and giggles.

Posted by: Fritz at November 10, 2015 12:25 PM (UzPAd)

622I hit the local coffee shop around 5:30 am which is filled with gardeners before they head off to work. The other day, I thought I would get drunk by all the ketones they were emitting.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at November 10, 2015 12:25 PM (iQIUe)

623
NEW YORK -- The Clinton "spin machine" appears to be behind a report claiming Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has overruled the finding of Intelligence Community Inspector General Charles McCullough that two Hillary Clinton emails sent on her private server contained highly classified information, investigative author Ed Klein told WND.

"It's not true that Director of National Intelligence Clapper has overruled Inspector General Charles McCullough," Klein said after a careful reading of news articles regarding the FBI's probe of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of state.

The FBI is investigating whether she violated the Espionage Act's subsection pertaining to "gross negligence" in the safekeeping of national defense information, a source familiar with the investigation told Fox News in October.

... It really doesn't matter if Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said it or not, if the material was classified at the time, there still is a crime.

Frankly, I'm getting tired of all of the Hillary email stuff .. why can't she just go to jail like she is supposed to ?

Posted by: undocumented at November 10, 2015 12:25 PM (e8kgV)

624I went to law school with this guy running for US Senate from Alabama.

Interesting fella. Primary challenge for Shelby, eh? He could use one, though I worry what would happen to the committee Shelby chairs (Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs).

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 10, 2015 12:30 PM (Xo1Rt)

629
My experience, Jay, is that libs just don't think about consequences beyond the initial feels. Now, you may be more conspiracy minded, and it's hard to say there isn't a shadowy cabal out there, but I know the lefties I've met and know rarely think impassionately about what they "believe".

Posted by: Chupacabra at November 10, 2015 12:30 PM (F26eZ)

630
Like a train riding on liberal talking points rails her brain could not move anywhere but down those rails.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 10, 2015 12:23 PM
________

Liberals believe -- or at least claim to believe -- what they're taught to believe. It doesn't make sense; it doesn't have to.

Twice, I tried to invent a liberal rule.

One was to consider the term "Western" (as in the Old West in the U.S.) racist. My reasoning was that the Old So-Called West had Native Americans who went south to get there, Chinese who went east, Mexicans who went north, and white people who went west, and it's only called "the West" because we're using the white man's historical frame of reference.

The other time was when a local high school, whose teams were the Redskins, considered a change for its nickname. When asked to opine, I said, "Redskins? What about the Blue Bombers down the road? Do we really want those children to self-identify as Bombers? In the wake of Littleton, is it a good idea to keep that name?"

Blank stares and confusion both times.

Not only are they incapable of (or perhaps forbidden from) original thought, they refrain from engaging with any original thoughts from others.

Posted by: FireHorse at November 10, 2015 12:35 PM (QHz3V)

631
Interesting fella. Primary challenge for Shelby, eh? He could use one,
though I worry what would happen to the committee Shelby chairs
(Banking, Housing Urban Affairs).

Ya, primarying a sitting Republican Senator is probably not the best way to get into politics. But he's got balls.